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Kitchener receives $175k for patio-like permeable parking lot
- ptaipale 11y agoSomehow funny that this needs to be marketed as a climate project. That impact is probably marginal, and energy/material cost of the surface material - not covered here - is more important. Probably it has more positive effect by reducing flooding, which tends to get worse in built up areas with lots of pavement. When rain and melting snow can bw absorbed to the ground, flooding risks go down.
- parenthephobia 11y agoOne effect of climate change is increased flood risk in areas not previously prone to flooding, which is something that Kitchener has been dealing with for several years now.
- revelation 11y agoThe city is set to receive $175,000 through the FCM's Green Municipal Fund, meant to help cities tackle climate change and increase environmental sustainability. And they built a parking lot.
- sauronlord 11y agoI live across from the nature reserve. The parking lot was already there and regularly used. But the irony is great.
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- hanniabu 11y agoI'm not sure of the cost comparisons but there's permeable concrete as well, some even let plants grow in them.....or they could have just fine will a Simone solution such as a gravel lot.
- pj_mukh 11y ago""This permeable parking lot will help us understand how effective permeable pavers are for managing impacts to our water quality," Kitchener Mayor Berry Vrbanovic said in a press release." So it seems like a study, but this area is surrounded by (a growing number of) commercial properties with regular concrete. I wonder how they'd measure the effect while controlling for this growth.
- bydo 11y agoConsidering that we've been doing this for decades[1], it's a bit odd to see this hailed as something new. Though it's nice to see low impact development[2] get some press. 1: http://www.millermicro.com/porpave.html http://www.millermicro.com/porpave.html 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-impact_development_(U.S._and_Canada) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-impact_development_(U.S._a...
- betaby 11y agoThere are plenty of parkings / pavements like that in Europe. In fact I was surprised why pavement in USA/Canada is solid concrete and not those small pavement bricks.
- patrickbolle 11y agowoo my city is on HN! this is cool, and like others have said Europe got this down ages ago